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Month: February 2018

The Rise of the Clinic: 2, hospitals

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For painters, hospital medicine was spectacle, and its doctors actors on a stage. As time progressed, artists and doctors looked more closely at the patient.

February 11, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Last Week on My Mac: Here comes macOS 10.14

Apple should name macOS version with literary references. Here’s the justification for macOS 10.14 Gormenghast.

February 11, 2018 General, Macs, Technology

The Rise of the Clinic: 1, family medicine

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The role and work of the family physician was painted not infrequently in the late nineteenth century. Starting with a Rembrandt, here are some examples.

February 10, 2018 General, Life, Painting

Hazel and SearchKeyLite bring order to your documents

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My screenshots are now tagged with metadata supporting Spotlight search, and Hazel uses that to sort them into folders automatically.

February 10, 2018 Macs, Technology, xattr

The Tables Turned: Painters paint photographers

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Some painters couldn’t miss the chance to promote their art over the new medium of photography. Even though the war was lost, top photographers still liked their portraits painted.

February 9, 2018 General, Life, Painting, Technology

Watching folders – 1 for users

A quick tour through Folder Actions (AppleScript), Hazel (System Preferences pane, commercial), and fswatch and their potential uses.

February 9, 2018 Macs, Technology

Under spam attack again: commenting requires login (temporary measure)

I am afraid that this blog has once again been under a spam attack all day, in which […]

February 8, 2018 General, Language, Life, Macs, Painting, Technology, xattr

Bigamy, sorcery, and rotting timbers: was Jason just another rat?

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The tragic story of Jason’s first wife, whom he abandoned in favour of Medea, the sorceress. In the end, Hypsipyle got her revenge on him.

February 8, 2018 General, Life, Painting

xattr: com.apple.diskimages.fsck, record of disk image integrity check

Contains binary data on the last integrity check made using fsck on a disk image. Can be deleted to enable some images to be mounted.

February 8, 2018 xattr

xattr: com.apple.diskimages.recentcksum, disk image checksum

Contains details of the last checksum of a disk image, performed using hdiutil verify, which can be compared against that stored in the image. Read-only and compressed images only.

February 8, 2018 xattr

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